TOM'S BOOK LIST
Leadership Development
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Burce Patton, Sheila Heen
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry
- First, Break all the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers do Differently by Marcus Buckingham
- It’s Your Ship by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
- Leadership And Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box The Arbinger Institute
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John Maxwell
- The Cycle of Leadership, How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win (audio cd) by Noel M. Tichy
- The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
- The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan, edited by Douglas Brinkley
- What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith
- What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership by Vince Lombardi, Jr.
- Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Sales & Marketing
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
- Naked Marketing: The Bare Essentials by Robert Grede
- Please…Make ME a little bit FAMOUS! by Robert E. Krumroy
Business/Strategic
- Bootstrapping Your Business: Start and Grow a Successful Company with Almost No Money by Greg Gianforte
- Built to Last by Jim Collins
- Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right by Larry Bossidy
- Death by Meeting by Pat Lencioni
- E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy
- Getting Naked: A Business Fable…About Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Pat Lencioni
- Getting the Right Thing Done: A Leader’s Guide to Planning and Execution by Pascal Dennis
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- How the Mighty Fall, And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do To Increase the Value of your Growing Firm by Verne Harnish
- Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Pat Lencioni
- Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars by Pat Lencioni
- Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch
- The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Pat Lencioni
- The 5 Temptations of a CEO by Pat Lencioni
- The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers by Keith R. McFarland
- The Leadership Game by Tom Mullins
- The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today by Ken Blanchard
- The Mavericks at Work by William C. Taylor
- Winning by Jack Welch
Personal Growth/Self Development
- Billionaire: Secrets to Success by Bill Bartmann
- Fifth Wave Leadership: The Internal Frontier by Morris Shechtman
- Get Out of Your Own Way by Robert Cooper
- Half Time: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance by Bob Buford
- It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
- Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell
- My American Journey by Colin Powell with Joseph Persico
- My Therapist is Making Me Nuts! by Mark Hillman, PhD
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Risk, Originality, & Virtuosity: The Keys to a Perfect 10 by Peter Vidmar
- Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood by Jeffrey Marx
- Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers From Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
- The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier than you ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Corporate Athlete: How To Achieve Maximal Performance in Business and Life by Jack Groppel, PhD
- The Internal Frontier: Creating the Personal Transformations that Lead to Success by Morris Shechtman
- The Magic of Thinking Big: Acquire the Secrets of Success… Achieve Everything You’ve Always Wanted by David Schwartz, PhD
- The Monk who Sold his Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma
- The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life by Lee Eisenberg
- The Other 90%: how to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life by Robert Cooper
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and personal Renewal by Jim Loehr
- The Psychology of Winning: Ten Qualities of a Total Winner by Denis Waitley
- The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
- The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M. R. Covey
- The Ten Laws of Wealth & Abundance: Wherein are Revealed the Secrets of Enjoying a Plentiful Supply of Money by Ron Willingham
- Think & Grow Rich by Napolean Hill
- Toughness Training for Life by Jim Loehr
- Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and In Your Life by Spencer Johnson, MD
- Working without a Net: How to Survive and Thrive in Today’s High Risk Business World by Morris Shechtman
- Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You’re 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley, Henry Lodge